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HOW MEDIATION WORKS
Mediation is a no court option for dissolving
your divorce. Through facilitated negotiations,
clients identify, clarify and resolve issues
raised by your divorce. This neutral process
rests on firm ground rules and a confidential
environment. Even emotionally charged issues
can be talked about safely. Our husband/wife
attorney/therapist mediation team offers a gender
balanced approach to helping you gather necessary
information, and can help you formulate a more
creative, satisfying solution than may be possible
for a court to offer.
Neither the attorney or therapist mediator acts
as advocate for either one of you. Mediation
helps each of you to clarify your concerns,
interests and values while allowing you the
retain the decision making power for your final
agreement. When parenting agreements and
financial distribution plans are created by
the Partners themselves, there is a better chance
of satisfying the needs of the entire family.
Mediated divorces have a higher rate of long-range
parental cooperation and a lower frequency of
costly court returns.
My role as your co mediator is to serve as “air
traffic controller”, helping you to separate
volatile emotions from sound decision making.
The attorney mediator bring over 30 years
of family law experience to the process.
Together, our years of combined experience and
skill in conflict resolution help you and your
spouse arrive at a viable Marital Settlement
agreement.
Mediation will enable you to:
- Resolve your parenting plan fairly.
- Control the outcome of your divorce.
- Reach an equitable financial agreement.
By avoiding the combat of the litigation process,
the stage for continuing cooperation in raising
children is set.
Benefits of a Mediated Divorce:
- Enables individuals to emerge
from a divorce with dignity and self-respect.
- Empowers both parties to recognize
legitimate needs, and helps them develop
options to meet those needs.
- Mediation establishes a foundation
for future co-parenting. It protects
family relationships while helping a
couple dissolve their relationship as
husband and wife.
- Focuses on the present and
the future, not the past, and helps
individuals move beyond the past to
direct their energies toward independent
futures.
- Avoids the polarizing tendencies
of the litigation system.
- Reduces uncertainty for the
family, and minimizes confusion and
delay for children.
- Offers a confidential, informal
context for reaching agreement.
- Allows for more control over
the costs of the process.
If there is still adequate trust
between you and your spouse and the two
of you can work together agreeably to resolve
your financial issues and parenting arrangements,
mediation may be right for you
IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO END YOUR RELATIONSHIP,
MEDIATION IS THE BEST PLACE TO BEGIN.
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